MY ROOM...

About Me I’m Wendy Marsh, 38, and I live in Hitchin, Hert­ford­shire, with my hus­band Mark and our two chil­dren, Lola, 7, and Con­nor, 4. We bought our three-bed­room semide­tached house in December 2010.

My chal­lenge The house was run down and dated, es­pe­cially Lola’s room, which had an un­sightly boiler cup­board, bad light­ing, un­even floor­boards and flak­ing walls. It was also cold, as there was no un­der­lay.

lola’s wish list Lola wanted a room ‘fit for a princess’. It had to be bright, with a place to do draw­ing and writ­ing, and she needed a new sin­gle bed as her old one was too small. Most of all she wanted it pink – I, how­ever, wanted a lit­tle less pink!